Vivere lo spazio?: Riflessione critica sul rapporto tra liturgia e luoghi sacri
In building rooms, human beings express their understanding of the world, their social and cultural values, and also their belief. This belief finds its manifestation in buildings for cult, where the fanum is separated from the pro-fanum. But, where people believe that God has become a human being t...
| Published in: | Annali di studi religiosi |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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2003
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Annali di studi religiosi
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| Summary: | In building rooms, human beings express their understanding of the world, their social and cultural values, and also their belief. This belief finds its manifestation in buildings for cult, where the fanum is separated from the pro-fanum. But, where people believe that God has become a human being this follows a new understanding of the world: There is no longer any opposition of a holy space on the one side and other rooms on the other, where God acts less effectively. Since the risen Lord Jesus Christ left his word to us: «I’ll be with you all day until the end of the world!» (Mt 28,20), the presence of God is not fixed in one room, but is promised to the community of believers, and therefore is also found in those special rooms, which this community worships. What this community is doing is not made possible by a temple or any kind of a sacrificial law, but is made possible through the personal encounter with Christ. He does not face the community of believers as it would be in a temple, but is present in the midst of this community as the fundament of any liturgical celebration. Not the building causes the sanctity, but only Christ in what he is personally doing to and with all the believers. Nevertheless, the church building has its own significance, because there is no kind of worship beyond the borders of space and time: Liturgical space can enable the encounter with God, but can also become an obstacle. Therefore church buildings today have two possibilities: they can become museums with a permanent exhibit of the history of architecture and of the matters of faith, or they can become living rooms for a living faith, where this faith in the living God is celebrated and experienced anew every day |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3892 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi
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